Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 539

Applications for orders in relation to contraventions of civil remedy provisions

(1) A provision referred to in column 1 of an item in the table in
subsection (2) is a civil remedy provision .

(2) For each civil remedy provision, the persons referred to in column 2
of the item may, subject to sections 540 and 544 and Subdivision B, apply
to the courts referred to in column 3 of the item for orders in relation to a
contravention or proposed contravention of the provision, including the
maximum penalty referred to in column 4 of the item.

Note 1: Civil remedy provisions within a
single Part may be grouped together in a single item of the table.

Note 2: Applications cannot be made by an
inspector in relation to a contravention of a civil remedy provision by a
person in certain cases where an undertaking or compliance notice has been
given (see subsections 715(4) and 716(4A)).

Note 3: The regulations may also prescribe
persons for the purposes of an item in column 2 of the table (see
subsection 540(8)).

Note 4: See section 557A in relation
to a serious contravention of a civil remedy provision .